The Rise of China Notes

By: Ashley Nicolle Martínez Zapata 10ºC

- Singapore has a refreshingly 21st-century attitude to young Singaporeans and

other foreign nationals being educated in Singapore and then going abroad (or
returning home) to make their fortunes.
- The country treats them as living links back to Singapore who will provide a source
of demand for Singaporean goods and services abroad and a deep knowledge
about foreign culture when they return to Singapore.
- An analysis of the actual quality of rapidly rising number of patents in China tells a
very different story than the one we usually hear about how soon China will be an
innovation giant.
- E-commerce is growing like gangbusters in China, but China has no equivalent of
Fed-Ex or UPS, meaning that these new Chinese companies have to develop their
own distribution networks.
- One hundred and ten cities in China already face major water shortages, and as
China's energy use goes up, China's water supplies go down not only from
hydropower, but also because coal-fired electricity in China uses 30 trillion gallons
of water; it will soon account for 40 percent of Chinese water consumption.